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Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

George F. Atkinson papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 51 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113562957]
Identifier: 21-29-103
Abstract

Correspondence relating to the collection, classification, and study of plant specimens; recommendations for graduate students; notes on the development of botanical investigation at Cornell; and diary of a trip to Europe. Material relating to Atkinson's work at the University of North Carolina and the Agricultural Experiment Station in Auburn, Alabama.

Dates: 1880-1918.

Harry Morton Fitzpatrick papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-29-104
Scope and content

Correspondence and notes relating to the collection, identification, and nomenclature of plant specimens and the preparation of articles for the International Botanical Congress and the Mycological Society of America. Also, "Lectures on Mycology: Basidiomycetes" for Plant Pathology 221 and 222, revised 1941. Also, "An historical sketch of the early days of botany at Cornell," by H. M. Fitzpatrick, 1926 (photocopy).

Dates: 1907-1948.

Sea-weeds collected on the British coast, presented to the Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar. Collected by W. & M. A.

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078878232]
Identifier: 6364
Scope and content

30 leaves, 20 of them with delicately mounted sea weed specimens with mss. descriptions, poetry, religious sentiments interspersed. Leeds:N.d., after 1853.

Dates: 1853; Undated